Me too, I have been a devout hat enthusiasts literally ever since I was a very little girl, I wish that I could go back in time, and visit one of the Miliner Haute Couture boutiques of yesteryear! I'd absolutely lose my mind in a shopping frenzy😉❤️🔥💯💥💃🏽
This is my fav channel! I'm a knit wear designer and long time sewing designer till a few years ago due to health conditions. I've been so afraid I lost all my creativity due to that. Depression! You! Creative person! With your videos have re-placed a spark in me! Love ya soooo much for that! 💗💗💗
I appreciate that you call your hats your buddies. ❤️ I like the black saucer, the mini pirate one, the green one with the veil and the rust one, as well. The tilted donut reminds me of a stylish 40s smoke detector! Your little pat on the tissue paper was cute, too. 👒
Oh good grief! Not checked in with you for a while and what an amazing reintroduction. 1. You look amazing. 2. Your hair looks amazing. 3. Your hair withheld with all that hat wearing and jiggery pokery. 4. I want your hair style and I'm now going to change mine likely this forthcoming week. 5. Your new hat additions are quite off the chart. 6. Your attention to packing/storing your hats carefully is a lesson to us all. And, as always Bianca, never stop doing what you do. Your narrative is most inspiring. Lois from London x
While I'm not much of a hat wearer, I adore to watch your collection videos - it's *~magnificent~* Btw, on a topic of not wearing things that are packed in storage - is it because you don't want to go through the hassle of unpacking it or you forget about specific items when they are "out of sight out of mind" when you plan outfits? Because I have the second problem and in my case digital wardrobe planning apps came to rescue c': God it was annoying to photograph but now I finally wear all my jewelry because the app helps to _remember_ I have stuff somewhere in the boxes
I scrolled down here to ask a similar question! Some of my things definitely don't get worn enough just because they fade to the periphery of my memory if not easily visible.
Do you have specific wardrobe planning apps you like? I have been looking for something like that to digitally organize my collection. I didn't think of wardrobe planning, and was thinking more along the lines of curating, so I eyeballed the boxes app, but never went for it. I wasn't convinced that it fulfilled my needs. I'd love a suggestion! Thanks.
@@daemein I personally use Acloset, but the main features I utilise are outfit planning/tracking and some statistics. Talking about storage, there are some parts of the app you can use for that, like tags or comments under each item, but this app isn't designed for storage organisation specially
glass fronted cupboards that keep the dust and moths out might help. You'd need to make sure it's out of direct sunlight to prevent fading though. Standard cupboards that you have to open before deciding could be a compromise. Hats that require shape support beyond tissue paper can go onto decorated stands. Styrofoam covered in tissue paper or papier mache formed over bowls or balloons can be stuck to cupboard walls. Just a thought. Vintage display cabinet maybe?
It is indeed the unpacking and finding the exact hat I'm after that is the trouble, they are safe but not easily accessible! I simply need more space as an accessory hoarder, a room sized closet should do nicely someday...✨
Favoloso!!! These are all glorious. It's so wonderful to see you truly becoming the magnificent noir-futurist, Victorian gothic butterfly, rainbow space villainess you were doubtless born to be! Thank you for bringing us along for the ride. I thought I'd never seen anything better than the green feather number and then BAM! Toy tricorn, BAM! Black saucer surrealist pompom joy. I just can't 💚🖤💚
The hat from O'Neil's in Akron. O'Neil's was the top drawer department store; someone buying something at O'Neil's knew they had just bought something enviable, desirable and smart. As in a smart new hat.
Akron was probably quite a stylish place back in the day, when you consider how many rubber executives’ wives there would have been in town. With country club events and travel, they probably expected O’Neil’s to outfit them smartly.
Oh no! My grandparents donated a bunch of stuff before I was old enough and into vintage, luckily now they know to send anything they find in the back of the garage to me 😂❤
Love them all! Thank you for sharing your passion. X I photograph all my shoes and hats that have to be packed away, then stick photos on the inside of the wardrobe to remind me to wear them
Not sure if someone has mentioned this already, but in reference to the sequined evening hat, what we do for dusting at the costume collection where I volunteer is use a low-powered vacuum, but separated from the item by a piece of window screen. That way, even if something (like a sequin) comes off in the process, it won't get sucked in and you can reattach it. That might be a good solution to your issue, and it can be gentler than compressed air depending on the vacuum!
You can similarly attach hosiery over the entire nozzle of a vaccum cleaner with a rubber band to pick up objects like sequins and beading that may have hit the floor already during the cleaning process. I have also found a mini keyboard vacuum that is very low powered and has a small brush at the tip of it that works great for cleaning the interior hat band area of felted wool hats (the brush helps loosen the dust out while also fluffing out the felted wool enough to make it like new again).
Seriously great collection. My dream is a dressing room...a wall of shoes & bags...a wall of hats & accessories... then the DRESSES♡. Thanks for sharing. I live on the Island, and vintage can be pricey but every now and then you'll find 1 hat, gloves, purse, shoes ♡♡
The world is a really hard place to be right now. This gives you joy so don’t let anyone seeing you. It doesn’t matter if you have 200 hats a year that you add to your collection; it gives you joy so just do what makes you happy.
Could you do a series on how to wear the hats? The way you demoed the different styles of how to wear a pillbox hat, really told me I have no idea how to wear them...and the picture with the snood and tilted hat was interesting, too. And if the same style was worn through different decades, did they wear it different ways throughout those decades? Also, film noir dame is a great feeling! Also, that small tricorn is amazing!!!
Just wanted to say, cardboard isn't acid free, so the piece structuring the little minty fur hat might be happy to be replaced with a piece of acid free mat board or something of the sort. :) love the whole collection
Amazing, beautiful collection. Your hats are tangible reminders of what a different world existed in the 1930’s-40’s. We are an extremely casual culture today. Women enjoyed being feminine and dressed beautifully back then. I’m going to research how and why veils came to be such a thing, along with gloves it may have been a desire for modesty. Thanks for this wonderfully fun video!
I was coming to comments to ask Bianca to do a video on veils ! I am 59, so vaguely remember Catholic Women wearing "chapel veils", but was never a "girly" girl - so didn't pay attention ! I am Loving the really sculptural hats ! Can you even study hat making nowadays? Are there millinery schools in the USA ? The great thing is you can find and source materials easily now. You could make hats from the wool of Heritage Breeds of sheep ! That would be something I would love ! I wonder if you could source veils from either India or China, since both are historically involved with silk products. Or perhaps, South America - using either baby Alpaca (super fine!) or their "cousin" Vicuna's ! (Super super fine hair!)
So many beautiful, beautiful hats! I love so many of them. But above all l just love sharing in your joy and delight as you describe and put them on. Everything you say is, well, just perfect - like the hats!
I would have thought that the hair should be styled over the band/elastic. It would impede taking off the hat, but women were expected to keep hats on, so no issue? Obviously for this video one would simply put the elastic over top of the hair, but I’d have imagine Bianca would describe that one “would” style the hair overtop if that had been the norm. The stiff loops on the first yellow one, seem very odd, visually to me. Was this something you usually saw? Maybe I just haven’t seen too many pictures specifically of the of the side back of people’s heads.
Yes, hats with plain elastic definitely goes under the hair. Many years ago I found a little, late 30s, black half halo and couldn't quite "get" the elastic so...mum to the rescue (born 1922) showed me how easily it laid under the hair. And it stayed in place during a snow storm.
As a general rule, decorative or matching bands go over the hair, and elastics and little combs are hidden in the hair. Many 1940's hats like a few of mine seen here have matching felt or fabric straps that were worn over the hair, and the loops or bands are sometimes additionally decorated with flowers and such as seen in these examples www.pinterest.com/pin/93801604725206458/ www.pinterest.com/pin/460563499403653836/ www.pinterest.com/pin/460563499400313347/ www.pinterest.com/pin/460563499400836615/ www.pinterest.com/pin/460563499369012539/
This is so fun. Wish I could have these myself. I always wore hats when I was younger. Now it's just fascinators, or berets. Thanks for the great show, love that you try them all on for us.
I loved it. I remember seeing my mom ware what looked like a big black plate on her hair back in the 50s and she looked gorgeous in it. She wore it with a red dress and black gloves.
The hair looks beautiful! And the need to redo it later is a small price to pay when you're playing with hats. The green hat with the veiling and the yellow feather looks like the veil falls close enough to your face that it could double as a fashionable mosquito netting. Perfect for a walk on a summer day to keep the bugs out of your face! And, let's be honest, summer is basically bug season. A glamourous fashion and function accesory, and you absolutely shoul have one in more colors! Oh! A tan one to go with an adventure fashion outfit!
I am so thankful for you, Bianca, otherwise I would remain in ignorance of hat etiquette. 🤣😂😻 Your collection is beautiful. All I wear is a homemade topless, denim, sun hat, or a welding hat. No worries, I don't go to town very often, but I do romp around the ranch, harass the fish pond with my fishing pole, or repair fencelines. 🙃 Have an AWESOME weekend. 😻
I wish I looked good in hats. Sadly I do not, but you!!! You look stunning in all of your hats. They are all just beautiful little pieces of art and I love when you show your collections. ❤️
I love collection videos because I just love to see things I didn’t know existed! I can’t ‘see’ what many of these hats look like when I see them in stores but you can always tell how great they will be on!
Buttons and Bows, I love that shop! They have spectacular hats!! I have a dream that I'm sitting in front of a vanity and am trying on an endless array of gorgeous hats. Aaahhh you're living the dream!😍💖💖
Once again my heart is a-flutter seeing these amazing hats. Thank you so much for continuing to bring such interesting and inspiring content to UA-cam!
Thank you so much for sharing your collection with us. It's so lovely and it's a very fun, indulgent watch! I don't know why, but I love a hat with a veil. Thanks again! 😘😘
Bianca, you look so spectacular in your hats. I, too, love hats although mine are not vintage (at least the ones I wear). Thank you for sharing your new additions to your collection. Take care!
Hi, Yes!!! Hats!!! I do adore another hat video. I love hats. Congratulation on your hats. I can' say that I have a favorite. All of them are fantastic as per your usual. I will await a video about your new costume jewelry in the future. Yours, Ann
I love your collection! Mine is not nearly so vast, but I adore all of my pieces. Sadly, a few of my antique pieces were used on a wall display by my mother and became sun damaged. I love them just the same, but do not wear them. I think rescuing vintage and antique fur is a worthwhile endeavor and I would wear that minty colored fur hat often. I encourage people to honor the animal(s) who gave their lives in this way. I have a few antique fur items passed down to me by my ancestors that I still put on for special occasions. I refuse to buy new fur to be clear, but fur that existed before I was born ought to be worn. Thanks for sharing your collections!
I think you should have a retro weekend, every one that can make it meet up somewhere and show off our vintage and vintage inspired ensembles. If not in person, there's always Zoom.
Oh my god, those hats are TO DIE FOR. I'm so happy for you for making such amazing finds! I love your show and tell videos, and most of all when they're about hats.
Just watching again, as you do..well, as I do, anyway! That hat at about 8:15ish, with the green feathers is beautiful and looks just great on you!👏🏻👏🏻
I kept wanting to comment on the hat you were wearing, and then I would see the next one, and I wanted to comment on it too!!!! I loved the olive feather ones, both are just stunning. the vintage flowered one that was an early gift was stunning too. and the straw tilt. just yum.
I always learn so much from you sharing your collection, and Thank you for doing so before you packed them away. I do have to say that you hooked me with your beaded beetle and moth work. I even completed a beautiful moth necklace and I am planning a Luna Moth necklace so thanks for sharing ❤
Officially not a hat person….in fact im one of those philistines that , when handed a hat, turns it over in my hands with a confused expression, and a plaintive “so what do I do with this? I don’t even know which way round it goes” However, I don’t sew with silk either but I’m as happy to watch you sew some gorgeous confection from taffeta, as I am to watch you getting excited over your headgear lol I like passionate people :)
Wonderful collection! I'm a bit obsessed with hats. I was just on ebay looking at 1940's hats and saw some amazing and very unique ones; a black velour openwork style that would resemble a spider perched on your head, perfect for Halloween! A cute 30's ? sailor style beanie; perfect for a stroll on the boardwalk; A black velour beanie pillbox hybrid with a rolled stalk on top which has a length of fringe hanging down the side, some Fez vibes but so cute; there was an authentic halo bonnet style with a chin strap bow, wholesome and demure; A Top Banana large halo hat with brim and tropical leaf design, I actually thought it was a reproduction since the colors were so bright and clean. Quite a standout! I thought of your channel when I saw them. Thanks for showing your collection, oh there was also a small round fruit and flower netted confection with the original hair combs.
As always, your hats are quite glorious. Boss Vintage is so wonderful. I nabbed a pair of dark green gloves the last time I was in. The tricorn was just spectacular!
Bianca, I have started taking pictures of the things that are going into boxes and then attaching the pictures to the boxes so that I can easily find what I want. I think that this would work for storing your large collection of hats and other accessories or clothes in boxes. I hope that you are doing well. 🥰 Cathy from Alabama 🥰🥰
Oh, soooo beautiful 😍 🤩 These hats are so beautiful ❤️ What a wonderful collection! They all suit you so well! I'm new to your channel and I'm truly addicted already! Thank you so much for sharing ❤️
And yet again, another super collection! I cannot decide which is my fave but, I rather like the 'cat ears' hat....Super cute! Thanks for showing this amazing hat collection Bianca, such a joy to watch! x
I inherited one oy my great grandmother's hats, it is a wire frame covered in black feathers with blue pink and yellow in spots that lay flat to the head. I couldn't read most of the label so I only know it's union made in the USA. I managed to find a pillbox type feather hat with blue and orange spots to keep it company. I also recently inherited a hat from my grandmother that is labeled as a Mr. John classic soleil 100% wool hat.
Not sure if you asked our favorites for you....but I think the yellow donut hat you need to wear while pattern drafting! 💖 Or to open the show while wearing the mini tricorn pirate hat! The kitten ears one, do you think you could make one, I do. 😍 Lovely last one on you. Tfs 💖
I love them all! With a special mention to the kitty ears because one should always honor the furry deities. Also, as a fellow 18th century lover, may I suggest making a bright pink silk "pet en l'air" to go with the delicious little tricorn? You could go full 18th century with it, or "Victorians go 18th century", which was totally a thing.
I love the donut with the remix shoes and cord bag! Also the petal crown thing, NY creations is the best, always..The sequin little topper is my favorite. Yes, I have a hat problem, and, I'm also on my second account here. I'm Dawn from Hudson Vintage.. I wish you would do a live with me on your jewelry! Consider it?
I have never done a livestream of any kind, but I would like to in the future! I just don't have the set up or knowhow really, though my brother used to be a streamer so really I could perhaps convince him to help me 😂
I’m having a hard time focusing on the hats-your eye makeup and hair are absolutely stunning! Edited to add…yeah. I had no problem focusing on the tricorn hat!
Wow you do really well hunting down the good hats and coordinating them. I’m here trying to style a hat for 1944 World War II hanger dance and it’s summer look and I wish I had that tricorn one because that one you can wear for hundreds of years and it’s still in style 11:30 ha ha I guess the bonus to this one is it has a polkadot band and I have polkadot matching white and black gloves 🧤 giant brooch pearls and dancing shoes 👟 👠
So a tad freaked out. I was looking back through your video catalogue early last week looking for a specific video to post to someone and thought its been a while since you did a collections management video and low and behold here one is! lol
My hat collection is unfortunately boxed up as well. Mine is costume hats my friend Tiffany hired me to sell for her at the Colorado Renaissance Festival. They are art pieces and should be displayed but I have a single head on my shoulders and not a wall set up to display them on. Yet… give me time 😈
I don't dress vintage, and so can't pull of wearing amazing hats like these...but sure is fun watching you try them all on!!! I might go and check Boss Vintage out, maybe I could find some great accessories!!!
Oh how I love a hat!! I have way too many 😄 and completely share your enthusiasm. Oh the tricorn, I mean what!! Fantastic, you made me giggle! And I had no idea what casein was made from, often seen it as buttons so guess sequins could be made of it too? This made superb viewing, thank you 🥰
@@TheClosetHistorian 🤣 I have a really old book published 1876, gorgeous cover and prints inside, called The Uses of Animal [in the relation to Industry of Man] E Lankester M.D , F.R.S. Oh very very interesting reading indeed!!!! You'd absolutely love it 😀
Hats need to make a serious comeback! Useful and stylish I don't know why more people don't wear them. 👒
Me too, I have been a devout hat enthusiasts literally ever since I was a very little girl, I wish that I could go back in time, and visit one of the Miliner Haute Couture boutiques of yesteryear!
I'd absolutely lose my mind in a shopping frenzy😉❤️🔥💯💥💃🏽
I officially have hat envy. Wish I had the money to buy, and the space to store, a large selection of nice hats.
Same. And I don't even use hats other then the knitted ones during winter because really cold. Live in Sweden. But still want all the hats 😂
Your joy over the miniature tricorn is contagious. Very jealous of that find!
It wasn't even that expensive, I still can't believe no one had snapped it up before I got to it 😍
Love hats. Always have. Wish they were in style now a days.
This is my fav channel! I'm a knit wear designer and long time sewing designer till a few years ago due to health conditions. I've been so afraid I lost all my creativity due to that. Depression! You! Creative person! With your videos have re-placed a spark in me! Love ya soooo much for that! 💗💗💗
Glad to hear you've got your "spark" back ! Wishing you good health and happier days.
@@m.maclellan7147 thank you Margaret 💗
Thank you Raini! I hope you can return to full flame soon ✨❤️
I appreciate that you call your hats your buddies. ❤️ I like the black saucer, the mini pirate one, the green one with the veil and the rust one, as well. The tilted donut reminds me of a stylish 40s smoke detector! Your little pat on the tissue paper was cute, too. 👒
When you put on the brown felt with green feathers...magic happened.
Oh good grief!
Not checked in with you for a while and what an amazing reintroduction.
1. You look amazing.
2. Your hair looks amazing.
3. Your hair withheld with all that hat wearing and jiggery pokery.
4. I want your hair style and I'm now going to change mine likely this forthcoming week.
5. Your new hat additions are quite off the chart.
6. Your attention to packing/storing your hats carefully is a lesson to us all.
And, as always Bianca, never stop doing what you do.
Your narrative is most inspiring.
Lois from London x
Thank you Lois! ❤️
While I'm not much of a hat wearer, I adore to watch your collection videos - it's *~magnificent~*
Btw, on a topic of not wearing things that are packed in storage - is it because you don't want to go through the hassle of unpacking it or you forget about specific items when they are "out of sight out of mind" when you plan outfits? Because I have the second problem and in my case digital wardrobe planning apps came to rescue c': God it was annoying to photograph but now I finally wear all my jewelry because the app helps to _remember_ I have stuff somewhere in the boxes
I scrolled down here to ask a similar question! Some of my things definitely don't get worn enough just because they fade to the periphery of my memory if not easily visible.
Do you have specific wardrobe planning apps you like? I have been looking for something like that to digitally organize my collection. I didn't think of wardrobe planning, and was thinking more along the lines of curating, so I eyeballed the boxes app, but never went for it. I wasn't convinced that it fulfilled my needs. I'd love a suggestion! Thanks.
@@daemein I personally use Acloset, but the main features I utilise are outfit planning/tracking and some statistics. Talking about storage, there are some parts of the app you can use for that, like tags or comments under each item, but this app isn't designed for storage organisation specially
glass fronted cupboards that keep the dust and moths out might help. You'd need to make sure it's out of direct sunlight to prevent fading though. Standard cupboards that you have to open before deciding could be a compromise.
Hats that require shape support beyond tissue paper can go onto decorated stands. Styrofoam covered in tissue paper or papier mache formed over bowls or balloons can be stuck to cupboard walls.
Just a thought.
Vintage display cabinet maybe?
It is indeed the unpacking and finding the exact hat I'm after that is the trouble, they are safe but not easily accessible! I simply need more space as an accessory hoarder, a room sized closet should do nicely someday...✨
The green feathers make your eyeshadow pop
Just love listening to your hat-enthusiasm! And seeing you model them all!… oh and can we just appreciate your great make-up?
Thank you Suzanne!
Favoloso!!! These are all glorious. It's so wonderful to see you truly becoming the magnificent noir-futurist, Victorian gothic butterfly, rainbow space villainess you were doubtless born to be! Thank you for bringing us along for the ride. I thought I'd never seen anything better than the green feather number and then BAM! Toy tricorn, BAM! Black saucer surrealist pompom joy. I just can't 💚🖤💚
Thanks Ailsa! Pom pom chenille dots for the win indeed ✨
Love these, especially the “cat ear” one!
Whitney Avalon???!!!??
That black hat with the front petals is to die for! Definitely film-noir dame. Damn!
Thank you! It's such a fun one 🖤
Collections management!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳 it makes no sense to me how much I love your love of hats, especially because I don't wear hats.
Thank you! I mean I love the look of plenty of vintage I wouldn't wear myself so it's fair!
The hat from O'Neil's in Akron. O'Neil's was the top drawer department store; someone buying something at O'Neil's knew they had just bought something enviable, desirable and smart. As in a smart new hat.
Akron was probably quite a stylish place back in the day, when you consider how many rubber executives’ wives there would have been in town. With country club events and travel, they probably expected O’Neil’s to outfit them smartly.
So many amazing hats and Bianca you are not a hoarder you are collector and rescuer of the hats
Thank you Renata! A curator who wears the hats 😅✨
Those hats all look great on you! Thank for showing us your collection additions, I feel like I'm living vicariously through you! 😊
Thank you Joelle!
It was great to see my punkin friend from Halloween 😍😍😍 oh and the hats were smashing too, lol
Love your hats! My mother wore hats in the 60's. She downsized about 10 years ago and donated all the hats. I could have cried! I wish I had them!
Oh no! My grandparents donated a bunch of stuff before I was old enough and into vintage, luckily now they know to send anything they find in the back of the garage to me 😂❤
What a delightful selection of hats. I loved getting a look at these vintage treasures. That wee pirate hat, oh my! Thank you for sharing Bianca.
Thank you Kelly!
Love them all! Thank you for sharing your passion. X
I photograph all my shoes and hats that have to be packed away, then stick photos on the inside of the wardrobe to remind me to wear them
Thank you!
Not sure if someone has mentioned this already, but in reference to the sequined evening hat, what we do for dusting at the costume collection where I volunteer is use a low-powered vacuum, but separated from the item by a piece of window screen. That way, even if something (like a sequin) comes off in the process, it won't get sucked in and you can reattach it. That might be a good solution to your issue, and it can be gentler than compressed air depending on the vacuum!
You can similarly attach hosiery over the entire nozzle of a vaccum cleaner with a rubber band to pick up objects like sequins and beading that may have hit the floor already during the cleaning process. I have also found a mini keyboard vacuum that is very low powered and has a small brush at the tip of it that works great for cleaning the interior hat band area of felted wool hats (the brush helps loosen the dust out while also fluffing out the felted wool enough to make it like new again).
We are totally of like minds when it comes to hats! “How could I not?” 👍👍👍
Seriously great collection. My dream is a dressing room...a wall of shoes & bags...a wall of hats & accessories... then the DRESSES♡. Thanks for sharing. I live on the Island, and vintage can be pricey but every now and then you'll find 1 hat, gloves, purse, shoes ♡♡
Thank you Wendy!
The world is a really hard place to be right now. This gives you joy so don’t let anyone seeing you. It doesn’t matter if you have 200 hats a year that you add to your collection; it gives you joy so just do what makes you happy.
Thank you! ❤
Could you do a series on how to wear the hats? The way you demoed the different styles of how to wear a pillbox hat, really told me I have no idea how to wear them...and the picture with the snood and tilted hat was interesting, too. And if the same style was worn through different decades, did they wear it different ways throughout those decades?
Also, film noir dame is a great feeling! Also, that small tricorn is amazing!!!
Just wanted to say, cardboard isn't acid free, so the piece structuring the little minty fur hat might be happy to be replaced with a piece of acid free mat board or something of the sort. :) love the whole collection
Too true! Thank you Esther!
The rust with olive feathers,😍!! All of them a beautiful.
Imagine my joy in the store looking up top see it 🤣 Immediate "yes I'll take that please"
Amazing, beautiful collection. Your hats are tangible reminders of what a different world existed in the 1930’s-40’s. We are an extremely casual culture today. Women enjoyed being feminine and dressed beautifully back then. I’m going to research how and why veils came to be such a thing, along with gloves it may have been a desire for modesty. Thanks for this wonderfully fun video!
I was coming to comments to ask Bianca to do a video on veils ! I am 59, so vaguely remember Catholic Women wearing "chapel veils", but was never a "girly" girl - so didn't pay attention !
I am Loving the really sculptural hats ! Can you even study hat making nowadays? Are there millinery schools in the USA ?
The great thing is you can find and source materials easily now. You could make hats from the wool of Heritage Breeds of sheep ! That would be something I would love !
I wonder if you could source veils from either India or China, since both are historically involved with silk products.
Or perhaps, South America - using either baby Alpaca (super fine!) or their "cousin" Vicuna's ! (Super super fine hair!)
So many beautiful, beautiful hats! I love so many of them. But above all l just love sharing in your joy and delight as you describe and put them on. Everything you say is, well, just perfect - like the hats!
Thank you Kaytie!
I would have thought that the hair should be styled over the band/elastic. It would impede taking off the hat, but women were expected to keep hats on, so no issue?
Obviously for this video one would simply put the elastic over top of the hair, but I’d have imagine Bianca would describe that one “would” style the hair overtop if that had been the norm.
The stiff loops on the first yellow one, seem very odd, visually to me. Was this something you usually saw? Maybe I just haven’t seen too many pictures specifically of the of the side back of people’s heads.
Yes, hats with plain elastic definitely goes under the hair. Many years ago I found a little, late 30s, black half halo and couldn't quite "get" the elastic so...mum to the rescue (born 1922) showed me how easily it laid under the hair. And it stayed in place during a snow storm.
As a general rule, decorative or matching bands go over the hair, and elastics and little combs are hidden in the hair. Many 1940's hats like a few of mine seen here have matching felt or fabric straps that were worn over the hair, and the loops or bands are sometimes additionally decorated with flowers and such as seen in these examples www.pinterest.com/pin/93801604725206458/ www.pinterest.com/pin/460563499403653836/ www.pinterest.com/pin/460563499400313347/ www.pinterest.com/pin/460563499400836615/ www.pinterest.com/pin/460563499369012539/
The black half hat is just too gorgeous!
This is so fun. Wish I could have these myself. I always wore hats when I was younger. Now it's just fascinators, or berets. Thanks for the great show, love that you try them all on for us.
Thank you Linda!
You have the BEST taste in vintage hats! They all look perfect on you!
Thank you!!
I loved it. I remember seeing my mom ware what looked like a big black plate on her hair back in the 50s and she looked gorgeous in it. She wore it with a red dress and black gloves.
This sounds magnificent indeed!
@@TheClosetHistorian Oh yeah, you'd a loved it. My mom rocked it well. We have a video of her wearing it.
The hair looks beautiful! And the need to redo it later is a small price to pay when you're playing with hats. The green hat with the veiling and the yellow feather looks like the veil falls close enough to your face that it could double as a fashionable mosquito netting. Perfect for a walk on a summer day to keep the bugs out of your face! And, let's be honest, summer is basically bug season. A glamourous fashion and function accesory, and you absolutely shoul have one in more colors! Oh! A tan one to go with an adventure fashion outfit!
Thank you!
Hats with built in fly nets ..... from the 40s....who knew! Wonderful collection
I am so thankful for you, Bianca, otherwise I would remain in ignorance of hat etiquette. 🤣😂😻 Your collection is beautiful. All I wear is a homemade topless, denim, sun hat, or a welding hat. No worries, I don't go to town very often, but I do romp around the ranch, harass the fish pond with my fishing pole, or repair fencelines. 🙃 Have an AWESOME weekend. 😻
Do you live anywhere near Massachusetts? I have a welding helmet I can't wear - old wooden studio building.
Looking for a welding teacher or buddy !
@@m.maclellan7147 I am located in North Central Texas. I do hope your post will get you connected with a welder much closer to you. 😍
Thank you Dolores! I should think the fish wouldn't mind if you had a feathery hat one day 😅✨
@@TheClosetHistorian 🤣
I would’ve never thought I’d enjoy a video about hats, but here we are!
I wish I looked good in hats. Sadly I do not, but you!!! You look stunning in all of your hats. They are all just beautiful little pieces of art and I love when you show your collections. ❤️
I used to think that too, but it just takes a little time to find what styles suit one's face
Thank you Beth!
Well done, my dear, a lovely presentation.
Thank you Susan!
I love collection videos because I just love to see things I didn’t know existed! I can’t ‘see’ what many of these hats look like when I see them in stores but you can always tell how great they will be on!
Thank you Katherine!
Buttons and Bows, I love that shop! They have spectacular hats!! I have a dream that I'm sitting in front of a vanity and am trying on an endless array of gorgeous hats. Aaahhh you're living the dream!😍💖💖
I always love watching your collections and hauls, they're are such a treasure trove of beautiful things!
Thank you Kyra!
That hat with ALL the sequins had me singing "Cabaret"!!!!
Once again my heart is a-flutter seeing these amazing hats. Thank you so much for continuing to bring such interesting and inspiring content to UA-cam!
Thank you Janet!
I really liked all of your hats. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Sandra!
You, in the black petal crown hat, look like my beautiful aunt. She wore one almost exactly like that. I loved it when I was a kid and I still do.
She sounds glamorous!
Wow, you have many gems there! I am mesmerized by the ones with green feathers. 🥰
Thank you Elaine! Green and feathers is the best combo ✨💚
I cannot wait for you to have a house and start vlogging the building of your dresser room and you can display your collection in all it's glory :D
The dressing room may happen even before the workroom, but both would be fun to go wild with 😍✨
I'm so jealous 😫 I want all the hats!
Thank you so much for sharing your collection with us. It's so lovely and it's a very fun, indulgent watch! I don't know why, but I love a hat with a veil. Thanks again! 😘😘
OMG, I'm absolutely in Love with these gorgeous ladies hats, such great couture from the past🤗
OMG That was too much fun!! I loved all of the hats and they each look so great on you Bianca. Also you are very funny 😁 a real pleasure !
Thank you Lin!!
I too love hats and am seriously enjoying living vicariously through your hat collection.
Bianca, you look so spectacular in your hats. I, too, love hats although mine are not vintage (at least the ones I wear). Thank you for sharing your new additions to your collection. Take care!
Thank you Anita!
Hi, Yes!!! Hats!!! I do adore another hat video. I love hats. Congratulation on your hats. I can' say that I have a favorite. All of them are fantastic as per your usual. I will await a video about your new costume jewelry in the future. Yours, Ann
Thank you Ann!
Oh my the kitten ear hat is perfection! You can rock a hat like no other! Thanks so much for sharing your gorgeous hat collection.
Thank you!
I love your collection! Mine is not nearly so vast, but I adore all of my pieces. Sadly, a few of my antique pieces were used on a wall display by my mother and became sun damaged. I love them just the same, but do not wear them. I think rescuing vintage and antique fur is a worthwhile endeavor and I would wear that minty colored fur hat often. I encourage people to honor the animal(s) who gave their lives in this way. I have a few antique fur items passed down to me by my ancestors that I still put on for special occasions. I refuse to buy new fur to be clear, but fur that existed before I was born ought to be worn. Thanks for sharing your collections!
I think you should have a retro weekend, every one that can make it meet up somewhere and show off our vintage and vintage inspired ensembles. If not in person, there's always Zoom.
I am afraid I personally am far too introverted 😅
As a fellow hat lover I think the black with the leaves or feathers is just perfect with the dress you are wearing!
Thank you Wanda!
Oh my god, those hats are TO DIE FOR. I'm so happy for you for making such amazing finds! I love your show and tell videos, and most of all when they're about hats.
Thank you Emma!
Just watching again, as you do..well, as I do, anyway! That hat at about 8:15ish, with the green feathers is beautiful and looks just great on you!👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you Loretta!
I love how you call all your hats "buddy" 🥰
I kept wanting to comment on the hat you were wearing, and then I would see the next one, and I wanted to comment on it too!!!! I loved the olive feather ones, both are just stunning. the vintage flowered one that was an early gift was stunning too. and the straw tilt. just yum.
Thank you! Got to love hats ✨
I always learn so much from you sharing your collection, and Thank you for doing so before you packed them away. I do have to say that you hooked me with your beaded beetle and moth work. I even completed a beautiful moth necklace and I am planning a Luna Moth necklace so thanks for sharing ❤
Thank you Betsy! A moth necklace sounds wonderful for sure! ✨
Officially not a hat person….in fact im one of those philistines that , when handed a hat, turns it over in my hands with a confused expression, and a plaintive “so what do I do with this? I don’t even know which way round it goes” However, I don’t sew with silk either but I’m as happy to watch you sew some gorgeous confection from taffeta, as I am to watch you getting excited over your headgear lol I like passionate people :)
A wall of hats sounds way better than a wall of shoes! I love these videos. I find it so interesting seeing your collection. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Kath! I expect I will build a wall of hats and a wall of shoes, with a wall of handbags in between them 😅😂
You have made me want to pull out the old family albums... my Gran was an absolute fiend for hats.
Sounds like a great gal then!
Wonderful collection, Bianca! You have great taste. Thank you for sharing your hats!
Thank you Mary!
Amazing collection! I always learn so much from your videos. My favorite is the mustard colored doughnut hat :-) Thank you for sharing!
Thank you Barbara!
Wonderful collection! I'm a bit obsessed with hats. I was just on ebay looking at 1940's hats and saw some amazing and very unique ones; a black velour openwork style that would resemble a spider perched on your head, perfect for Halloween! A cute 30's ? sailor style beanie; perfect for a stroll on the boardwalk; A black velour beanie pillbox hybrid with a rolled stalk on top which has a length of fringe hanging down the side, some Fez vibes but so cute; there was an authentic halo bonnet style with a chin strap bow, wholesome and demure; A Top Banana large halo hat with brim and tropical leaf design, I actually thought it was a reproduction since the colors were so bright and clean. Quite a standout! I thought of your channel when I saw them. Thanks for showing your collection, oh there was also a small round fruit and flower netted confection with the original hair combs.
I love these hats especially the veiled ones, not only do they look great but they keep the bugs out! X x
As always, your hats are quite glorious. Boss Vintage is so wonderful. I nabbed a pair of dark green gloves the last time I was in. The tricorn was just spectacular!
Thank you Andy!
Bianca, I have started taking pictures of the things that are going into boxes and then attaching the pictures to the boxes so that I can easily find what I want. I think that this would work for storing your large collection of hats and other accessories or clothes in boxes.
I hope that you are doing well. 🥰
Cathy from Alabama 🥰🥰
Oh my these are just so gorgeous and stylish xxxxxxxxx
I wish the British Royal Family would go vintage hat sometimes. Thanks for sharing your collections.
So true! The devotion to modern hats perplexes me 😅
That mini tricorn. I want one just like it. It would go with so many of my things.
Simply Adore all your hats featured
Thank you Julie!
Oh, soooo beautiful 😍 🤩 These hats are so beautiful ❤️ What a wonderful collection! They all suit you so well! I'm new to your channel and I'm truly addicted already! Thank you so much for sharing ❤️
Thank you!!
A wall of hats would be amazing!
You look great in a hat your collection of hat's is amazing😍
Thank you Carol!
Love the hairdo and the hats!
Thank you Kelly!
And yet again, another super collection!
I cannot decide which is my fave but, I rather like the 'cat ears' hat....Super cute!
Thanks for showing this amazing hat collection Bianca, such a joy to watch! x
Thank you Jo!
The mustard, maybe homemade one is my fav! A hat tutorial would be really interesting!
I inherited one oy my great grandmother's hats, it is a wire frame covered in black feathers with blue pink and yellow in spots that lay flat to the head. I couldn't read most of the label so I only know it's union made in the USA. I managed to find a pillbox type feather hat with blue and orange spots to keep it company. I also recently inherited a hat from my grandmother that is labeled as a Mr. John classic soleil 100% wool hat.
Not sure if you asked our favorites for you....but I think the yellow donut hat you need to wear while pattern drafting! 💖 Or to open the show while wearing the mini tricorn pirate hat! The kitten ears one, do you think you could make one, I do. 😍 Lovely last one on you. Tfs 💖
Thank you Jayne! I definitely need to work out how to make some kitten eared hats!
I love them all!
With a special mention to the kitty ears because one should always honor the furry deities.
Also, as a fellow 18th century lover, may I suggest making a bright pink silk "pet en l'air" to go with the delicious little tricorn? You could go full 18th century with it, or "Victorians go 18th century", which was totally a thing.
Thank you! Alas I look terrible in pink, but black I could do 😂🖤
I was trying to figure out my favorite but they are all just so darling 🥰
I love the donut with the remix shoes and cord bag! Also the petal crown thing, NY creations is the best, always..The sequin little topper is my favorite. Yes, I have a hat problem, and, I'm also on my second account here. I'm Dawn from Hudson Vintage.. I wish you would do a live with me on your jewelry! Consider it?
I have never done a livestream of any kind, but I would like to in the future! I just don't have the set up or knowhow really, though my brother used to be a streamer so really I could perhaps convince him to help me 😂
I’m having a hard time focusing on the hats-your eye makeup and hair are absolutely stunning!
Edited to add…yeah. I had no problem focusing on the tricorn hat!
Thank you Mary!
Wow you do really well hunting down the good hats and coordinating them. I’m here trying to style a hat for 1944 World War II hanger dance and it’s summer look and I wish I had that tricorn one because that one you can wear for hundreds of years and it’s still in style 11:30 ha ha I guess the bonus to this one is it has a polkadot band and I have polkadot matching white and black gloves 🧤 giant brooch pearls and dancing shoes 👟 👠
Nice additions to your collection!
So a tad freaked out. I was looking back through your video catalogue early last week looking for a specific video to post to someone and thought its been a while since you did a collections management video and low and behold here one is! lol
I’m stuck isolating with COVID and these hats and your enjoyment of them cheered me up no end.
I hope you're feeling better!
My hat collection is unfortunately boxed up as well. Mine is costume hats my friend Tiffany hired me to sell for her at the Colorado Renaissance Festival. They are art pieces and should be displayed but I have a single head on my shoulders and not a wall set up to display them on. Yet… give me time 😈
Get an Instagram account & show them off !
It would be very expensive and take up lots of room, but imagine having rows and rows of matching wig head stands each wearing one of your hats!
A wall of glass fronted cabinets with al the hats ❤✨
I don't dress vintage, and so can't pull of wearing amazing hats like these...but sure is fun watching you try them all on!!! I might go and check Boss Vintage out, maybe I could find some great accessories!!!
Thank you! They do indeed have very fun accessories!
Oh how I love a hat!! I have way too many 😄 and completely share your enthusiasm. Oh the tricorn, I mean what!! Fantastic, you made me giggle! And I had no idea what casein was made from, often seen it as buttons so guess sequins could be made of it too? This made superb viewing, thank you 🥰
Thank you Rowan! I know sequins used to be made of gelatin so nothing would surprise me 😂
@@TheClosetHistorian 🤣 I have a really old book published 1876, gorgeous cover and prints inside, called The Uses of Animal [in the relation to Industry of Man] E Lankester M.D , F.R.S. Oh very very interesting reading indeed!!!! You'd absolutely love it 😀